Chapter 8 The atmosphere is here.
Hazy clouds shrouded the city, and huge leaden clouds covered the sky. Gothic-style buildings rise from the ground, forming continuous outlines under the haze, as if shrouded in dark magic. The iron-like gray air permeates the entire city, as if it is slowly swallowing the tired and fallen soul.
This is Gotham, a city that is always dark even during the day.
Shen You put on his night clothes and followed the direction marked by the bracelet and came to a dark and dirty alley.
Sewage overflowed into the streets, and the fragile windows were covered with thick dust, as if they had been accumulated for eternity. Even the lights at the alleys seemed dim and dim.
A dead end.
Shen You stopped in front of the alley and confirmed the coordinates again. The marked location is indeed here, and there is no wrong place.
"If I were you, I'd get out of there, kid."
An old voice sounded behind him. Shen You turned around following the sound and saw an old man appearing in the alley behind him.
With his skinny body and dirty coat, he stood there as if he had become part of the shadow. His face is thin and old, and the staggered wrinkles on his face seem to silently tell the weathered past. His deep aquiline nose is covered with traces of erosion by time.
On the surface, he looks like a homeless person, but he exudes an indescribable aura of majesty.
"Get out of here, now."
The old man said sharply, his tone sounding less like a request and more like a command.
"Go while you still can, kid. Or else."
Before he finished speaking, a strange smile of "Jie Jie Jie Jie" echoed in the shadow.
"Oh hell," the old man frowned, "it's already too late."
The shadow at the entrance of the alley surged like fluid and soon rose up, forming a strange black shadow.
That thing had a human-like body shape, but it carried a huge black-green carapace, covered with dense thorns. Its fluorite-like eyes flashed in the darkness, and its legs and feet looked like they were made up of hundreds of slender silver tentacles, making people shudder.
"A demon spirit, a lackey of black magic." The old man snorted disdainfully, "When did you dare to face me, even an incompetent minion like you?"
"You've been so weak that you can't even sit on the throne on the Rock of Eternity, old man."
The demon spirit Jiejie laughed twice.
"For nine thousand years, you are getting older and weaker every day. Finally, you are not so good at fighting now? Old thing?"
Good guy, he's nine thousand years old, he's actually older than me, Ultraman. Shen You thought.
Rock of Eternity, Wizard. He seemed to have vaguely guessed it.
This old man is probably the old wizard who gave Ratio Batson the seven divine powers in the movie "Shazam", the first generation of Shazam.
That old guy has quite a lot of background, he is the top wizard in the world. In both the original work and the movie, he is too old, so he searches the world for an heir with "the purest heart" who meets his conditions to replace his divine power.
Basically, it is a magical version of the traditional fairy tale of "the master is about to die and rushes to find a disciple to give him nine thousand years of cultivation for free."
The wizard hummed in a deep voice: "I may be old, but I am still the guardian of the Rock of Eternity, the leader of all magic in the world, and the suppressor of ancient monsters!
What is your identity and you dare to be my enemy? Retreat quickly! "
With a loud shout, the wizard raised his right hand, and light and electricity suddenly appeared in his palm!
It's like grabbing the actual thunder in your hand and throwing it like a piercing javelin. The golden electric light illuminated the entire alley in an instant, and all darkness was dispelled, just like Zeus throwing lightning from the top of the Olympics, and like Odin riding an eight-legged horse and throwing his eternal spear!
Then
Then nothing happened.
The lightning struck the demon, and it probably had the effect of "HP-1".
Even Shen You was silent as he watched.
It turns out that the special effects look so gorgeous, but in fact the output is almost nothing?
The person on the other side was unscathed, but the wizard bent his knees and half-knelt down as if his waist had been hollowed out.
"I'm too weak," he gasped. "I have defeated ancient demons and suppressed countless disasters. I didn't want to end up in such a miserable state one day."
"Hahahaha, I just said, your time has passed, old man. The Rock of Eternity is already in our possession, and by then all magic in the world will be ours to dominate!"
"Don't even think about it!"
The old man stood up stubbornly, and his skinny body revealed a tenacity that was different from his image, like a green bamboo unwilling to be broken in the wind.
He took a deep breath and blocked Shen You with his body.
"Go quickly, young man, stay away from this place." He said with difficulty, "I may be old, but I still have a few tricks up my sleeve. It's not that easy for a mere demon to take me down.
You take advantage of this opportunity and hurry up. Wow! "
As he spoke, he vomited another mouthful of blood.
Shen You: "."
No wonder the old man is so anxious to find an heir, he is really dying. But yes, he is still a mortal. Thanks to the power of Thunder Shazam, his life span has been extended to more than 9,000 years, which is enough to defy the heavens. He should have died long ago.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said tenaciously: "I have protected this world for nine thousand years, and even if my fate is cut off, I will have no regrets.
And even if you step over my body, you will find that this world will always have its guardians. Today, I will use the blood of the wizard Shazam to let you evil spirits understand."
However, the old wizard could not finish what he said.
Just as he was talking about this, a burst of bright light suddenly erupted from the position he was protecting with his body.
Illuminating the sky and tearing apart the darkness.
Specium Rays!
The demon spirit was also stunned for a moment.
It didn't expect the blow at all, or even if it did, it couldn't do anything about it.
There is great terror in that beam of light coming towards you!
It is just a low-level demon spirit. It has almost never seen such an exaggerated formation in its entire life. It can hardly imagine what level of magic can match such power.
MDs are all liars! It was promised that anyone could step on the old wizard if he was still alive? Where did this monster come from?
A thought flashed through its mind at the last moment of its death.
The world is so scary, I want to go back to hell.
Then it was filled with light.
When the cannon fell, the light and electricity from the star point dissipated, leaving radiant ionization traces in the air, and the electric snake sizzled and jumped.
Shen You retracted his right hand, and the light energy hand cannon on his arm automatically deformed and folded, then returned to the bracelet after shrinking.
Another wonderful use of the bracelet, a fourth-dimensional storage box. Just like the glasses used by Zero for transformation are hidden in the bracelet, Shen You's bracelet also has a storage function.
Shen You turned to look at the old wizard: "What did you want to say just now?"
The old wizard opened his mouth in the middle of his impassioned speech, and swallowed back the second half of the burning and tear-jerking words.
The atmosphere was heightened to this point, but in the end, the other person didn't die, but the other person was killed.
There was an air of embarrassment in the air for a moment.